Gene Siskel Quotes

"I always ask myself, 'Is the movie that I am watching as interesting as a documentary of the same actors having lunch together?'"

"'Fargo' was the last great film that I saw."

On
Daylight: "As a measure of my boredom, about halfway through this picture I became distracted by a man down the aisle from from me who was eating some candy, and I tried to guess the candy he was eating by the sounds he was making. Those sounds were more interesting to me than anything going on on the screen in 'Daylight'"

On
Rocky: "The best movie of the year? Hardly. Stallone as the next
Marlon Brando? You've gotta be kidding. A nice little fantasy picture? Maybe..."

On the French comedy
Un indien dans la ville ("Little Indian, Big City"): "If the missing reel had been footage from
Orson Welles 'The Magnificent Ambersons,' this whole experience would still have sucked." (When Gene & Roger went to see this movie, the entire third reel was missing. They saw the rest a week later).

On the 1998 summer blockbuster hit
BASEketball: "This is one of those movies that is usually seen on the big jumbo-tron screen in a sports bar during the day - when everyone is quite drunk. Unfortunately, I was sober when I saw this movie."

On the summer comedy
Meet the Deedles: "Boy, was this an annoying experience. For the rest of my life, I may have a negative physical reaction whenever anyone mentions the title characters... The gags are pathetic, including the worm-eating... I did not laugh or crack a smile once. Giving this movie a negative review is not merely part of job, it's a public service. You have been warned."

On the 1998
Adam Sandler comedy
The Waterboy: "It's junk. And
Adam Sandler is annoying. And that irritating phony speech impediment of his that he has throughout this movie... I'm not even going to imitate it, but... is THAT supposed to be funny?"

On the 'Robin Williams' bio-vehicle
Patch Adams: "This is an annoying and cloying look and attack on the impersonal way doctors treat their patients. The problem is after seeing a glimse of Williams' personal treatment, we would settle for IMpersonal treatment! I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again. The title of this movie should have been 'Punch Adams!'"

"I'm in a hurry to get well, because I don't want Roger to get more screen time than I."